A ride at break-neck speed. Modern.
1909. About midnight he took the engine out on the main track, and had a wild “joy-ride.”—N.Y. Ev. Post, Nov. 25.
1910. Richard Sage, a seventeen-year-old chauffeur, was convicted of man-slaughter in the second degree while on the joy-ride.… Judge Dike remarked that the next joy-rider who was brought before him would be sentenced to Sing Sing.—Id., June 13.
